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Astăzi vă propunem: un interviu acordat de Béla Tarr publicației Hungarian Literature Online despre filmul său A torinói ló / The Turin Horse (2011) și Goldfrapp – „Horse Tears” (de pe albumul Felt Mountain, 2000).
HLO: „The film has been almost universally interpreted as a creation story in reverse order. Do you agree?”
Béla Tarr: „Not really. The Turin Horse is about the general hardness of human existence, about how hard it is to live life and be able to bear the monotony. If you drop out of your role, that’s the end. But I did not mean to talk about passing away and death. I just wanted to show how hard it is to go and fetch water from the well every day, come rain or shine. It is as simple as that.”
[…]HLO: „Sometimes the horse seems more alive than the people themselves.”
Béla Tarr: „No, they do have a lot of feelings, but they conceal them. Nothing happens, they just live, and this is what everyone does day by day: getting dressed, getting undressed, eating. We wanted to show that something is wrong. I do not judge, I just say that something is wrong…”
[…]HLO: „Do you think the apocalypse is going to be the way you show it in the film? Or was it simply what the story required?”
Béla Tarr: „I think the end of the world will be very quiet. It won’t be a great show, it will be like real life. Death is the most horrible thing that can happen to anyone, but when it is watched live it looks like nothing is happening.”[1]
„Night has fallen
Mute and cold
My horse is crying.”[2]
[1] Ági Szabó, „Béla Tarr: The end of the world won’t be a great show”, Hungarian Literature Online: hlo.hu, 21.02.2011, https://hlo.hu/interview/the_end_of_the_world_won_t_be_a_great_show.html, accesat în data de 20.04.2026.
[2] Goldfrapp, „Horse Tears”, SongMeanings, https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858592181/, accesat în data de 20.04.2026.
